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Emma Mackey

Emma Mackey

4 films · 679 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20212025

Born 4 January 1996 · Le Mans, France

Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey is a British and French actress. Her breakthrough performance in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023) earned her a British Academy Television Award nomination. Mackey has since starred in the mystery film Death on the Nile (2022) and portrayed Emily Brontë in the drama film Emily (2022). She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2023.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Mackey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 679 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emma takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day — the look of the work Emma takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night31%
Golden hour7%

Lighting

Natural39%
Low key34%
High key23%

Shot size

Medium47%
Wide24%
Closeup16%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle7%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral68%
Lonely8%
Tense8%
Mysterious5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 679 frames from Emma Mackey's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.